Subject
Grade
Concept/Content
Language features, structures, and conventions
- features of oral language
- paragraphing
- sentence structure and grammar
- conventions
Elaboration
including tone, volume, inflection, pace, gestures
development of paragraphs that have a topic sentence and supporting details
parts of speech; past, present, and future tenses; subject-verb agreement
common practices in punctuation (e.g., uses of the comma, quotation marks for dialogue, uses of the apostrophe in contractions); in capitalization in titles, headings, and subheadings; and in Canadian spelling
keywords
features of oral language
paragraphing
grammar
conventions